Miami Corporate Run weather? We don’t like this conversation with our local forecaster
Some 10,000 people have signed up to run or walk in Thursday’s 2022 Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run.
The big adrenaline jolt for all of these runners and walkers is the sound of the starting signal and a shower of confetti exploding overhead as the wall of people surge forward on Biscayne Boulevard in front of Bayfront Park.
Unfortunately, after days of sunny skies, it looks like the confetti shower isn’t the only shower we’ll see at the Corporate Run.
“Just looking at the model right now and it does look like tomorrow we’ll get the best chance for the east coast areas to get some rain — mostly in the afternoon and evening,” George Rizzuto, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said Wednesday.
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Afternoon and evening. The site opens by 5 p.m. and the race starts at 6:45 p.m. This is when we break the dry spell?
Don’t be angry at Rizzuto. He’s only the messenger. Those of us converging on the streets of downtown Miami for the 3.1 mile Corporate Run just don’t like the Thursday forecast and what should follow into the weekend — except for the temperatures that call for a high of 81 degrees and a low of 73 by the evening hours.
“Unfortunately, it doesn’t look great right now in the forecast for that time period,” Rizzuto said. “It’s not going to be a complete washout, but it looks like there could be some activity lingering over the east coast areas, just not something we’d like to see usually.”
You think?
“That could linger into the night hours as well,” he said.
Though the risk is primarily showers the weather service can’t rule out the potential for isolated or scattered thunderstorms as well, hence a hazardous weather outlook notice.
There’s a 60% chance Thursday and 40% Thursday night. The rain and thunderstorm chances remain elevated at 50% Friday and Saturday and drop to 30% on Sunday in Miami-Dade and Broward.
So why might it rain on the parade of happy corporate runners?
Rizzuto says that a frontal boundary is approaching. On Wednesday, the frontal boundary was mostly in North Florida. By Thursday that boundary, with its potential lightning and gusty winds, will be in the Lake Okeechobee region and kind of stalled out.
“So that’s kind of giving the storms a little bit more fuel for them to develop and then they kind of linger into the weekend,” Rizzuto said.
Thursday evening looks like the wettest period, he said.
Yes. We get the message. Is there anything more encouraging to say?
Rizzuto obliges. Rather, perhaps Mother Nature’s obliging.
“It looks like tomorrow the greatest rain is going to be falling north of the city of Miami,” Rizzuto said. “The greatest, heaviest rain will be in, like, northern Broward and Palm Beach County where we’re seeing the highest accumulation totals in the models currently. But that could change depending on what this front decides to do and where it decides to park itself. But right now it is looking like the heaviest stuff will be north of the city of Miami.”
This story was originally published April 27, 2022 at 10:26 AM.
